{"id":90868,"date":"2020-12-23T14:39:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T03:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fnarena.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/23\/ally-fashion-145-store-footprint-retailer-to-put-next-gen-ai-tech-to-the-test\/"},"modified":"2020-12-23T14:39:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T03:39:00","slug":"ally-fashion-145-store-footprint-retailer-to-put-next-gen-ai-tech-to-the-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/23\/ally-fashion-145-store-footprint-retailer-to-put-next-gen-ai-tech-to-the-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Ally Fashion, 145 Store Footprint Retailer, to Put Next-Gen AI Tech to the Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"xn-location\">SYDNEY<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Dec. 23, 2020<\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; Ally Fashion, continuing on 18-months of digital focus, makes critical steps to revolutionise customer journeys by creating a totally unique experience for each visitor.<\/p>\n<p>Going beyond rules-based personalization, Ally Fashion are putting breakout eCommerce AI leader, Particular Audience, to the test. <\/p>\n<p>Particular Audience provides a unique platform capable of adapting every product list on an eCommerce site from search results to merchandise pages and product recommendations &#8211; every product tile becomes dynamic to shopper intent and preference. <\/p>\n<p>Previously cumbersome and manual tasks like merchandising are automated by Particular Audience using machine learning.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-person\">Alina Timofeeva<\/span>, Ally Fashion&#8217;s Head of Ecommerce, has been leading their digital advancement, to be at the forefront of digital both in <span class=\"xn-location\">Australia<\/span> and internationally. <\/p>\n<p>Alina has partnered with Particular Audience to add a dynamic AI layer on top of their eCommerce platform. &#034;Particular Audience will be an important part of our growth trajectory&#034;. Representing the next generation of technology behind great eCommerce experiences.<\/p>\n<p>Sustainability is another key objective of Ally and Alina&#8217;s. Ally aims to achieve similar results to Particular Audience clients like UK based little-mistress.com, who saw a <b>35% reduction in item return rate<\/b> on items PA drove to sale, reducing their customers&#8217; carbon footprint and time spent queuing at the post office.<\/p>\n<p>Nielsen Varoy of PA, who heads up the Ally Fashion partnership is most excited by the application of computer vision.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#034;Computer vision driven discovery tools on Ally compliment behavioural data and product metadata to infer similarity between items, making for a more human browsing experience.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>When delivering the latest fashion trends to their global customer base, Ally encounters barriers to item discovery from the cold-start problem, exacerbating long-tail inventory i.e. stock that sells less often. Computer vision is a powerful solution to this without waiting for items to gain popularity to get impressions.&#034;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>With the Covid accelerated, digital first shift in retail, businesses like Ally Fashion with large physical footprints are investing online. <\/p>\n<p><b>Particular Audience <\/b><u><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/particularaudience.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">particularaudience.com<\/a><\/u>&#160;is headquartered in <span class=\"xn-location\">Sydney<\/span> with offices in <span class=\"xn-location\">Vancouver<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-location\">London<\/span>. Particular Audience operates SaaS technologies for retailers and retail technologies for consumers under the brand <u><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/similarinc.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Similarinc.com<\/a><\/u>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Ally Fashion<\/b>&#160;<u><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/allyfashion.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">allyfashion.com<\/a><\/u> is headquartered in <span class=\"xn-location\">Sydney<\/span> creating fashionable, affordable, quality clothing that enables every woman to access the latest global trends, styles and prints to create her own style.<\/p>\n<p>Related Links :<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/particularaudience.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SYDNEY, Dec. 23, 2020 \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; Ally Fashion, continuing on 18-months of digital focus, makes critical steps to revolutionise customer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90868"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}